[ba] Re: UDO sighting: you all are gonna think im NUTS, but....

[Mark]

I checked the archives.  I think this may be the car you are referring to.

http://caliban.sf.ca.us/img/audi/v8q-avant/

Regards
Mark

David Head wrote:

> Actually, there was one - specifically built for F. Piech. It is now in the VAG
> museum.
>
> Brett Dikeman wrote:
>
> > At 4:41 PM +0000 5/10/02, jim r wrote:
> > >[unidentified DRIVING object]
> > >
> > >yesterday evening [5pm, still good daylight], in san francisco, headed down
> > >geary, i notice a tan v8 coming up the hill toward me.
> > >
> > >as it passes me, something odd catches my eye - i glance in the rearview and
> > >notice its a WAGON?!?!?!?!?
> > >
> > >it had a wagon back, very squared off, not like the 44 wagons - more like
> > >the goofy tresser [if i remember] or audi one-odd v8 wagons they built for
> > >diplomats or something.
> >
> > There were never V8 wagons, only a V8 "lang"(Limo.)
> >
> > >the car was a mess, very dirty and kinda beat-up.
> >
> > Yep.  In the pictures I've seen, it looks like the owner lives out of it.
> >
> > >a custom-fabbed wagon back on a v8
> >
> > That's exactly what it is.
> >
> > >weird. anyone know what that is? lister? or am i just nuts? [most likely]
> >
> > This car gets spotted all the time...it is a V8q with the back end of
> > a Ford Tarus wagon.  They probably did it because it was dirt cheap
> > to buy the Tarus shell.
> >
> > Absolutely insane.  I -pray- it isn't a manual; hacking a car like
> > that, in that way, should be a crime.
> >
> > Most folks just buy a 200q20v avant.  Miss the V8 punch?  Not after a
> > chip, you won't.  Still not happy, despite the fact that the car is
> > lighter and has more HP/Torque with the chip?  Fine, get the RS2
> > goodies...
> >
> > Anyway, someone on the list probably remembers where the pictures are
> > of the monster, a lister once saw it and had a camera handy.
> >
> > Brett
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